[chimerax-users] Setting the bgColor transparent in ChimeraX

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Bertrand,
It is an option of the “save” command (transparentBackground true), see:

<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#image>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Aug 3, 2018, at 9:31 AM, bertrand beckert <bertrand.beckert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> I have now been  trying to use ChimeraX as a replacement for Chimera for making really nice images for publication. So far I have to say I really liked the rendering! definitely a really nice work! However I was really wondering how to get the background transparent... In Chimera we were able to set the background transparent as preference which is actually really useful... any idea how we can to do it in ChimeraX? 
> Any help would be highly appreciated! 
> Best 
> Bertrand